Am I eating enough??
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Hi I've lost 30# and am realllly struggling to lose 15 more. I'm female, 5'5", 150#, do cardio boxing 5x/week...burns about 400cals. I also do strength training twice a week, burns about 250/session. This is all based off my chest strap monitor. On average I'm eating 1300-1400 cals per day of "real food", but the scale will not budge at all. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong? Thank you!!
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I'll also add I weigh everything to the gram.2
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Normal.. just keep going it'll budge again.5
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You’ve lost 30 pounds, you are doing great. The last few pounds are the slowest to come off. Keep plugging away.3
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Hi I've lost 30# and am realllly struggling to lose 15 more. I'm female, 5'5", 150#, do cardio boxing 5x/week...burns about 400cals. I also do strength training twice a week, burns about 250/session. This is all based off my chest strap monitor. On average I'm eating 1300-1400 cals per day of "real food", but the scale will not budge at all. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong? Thank you!!
If the scale will not move for months, you are eating at maintenance right now. If it is just for a couple of weeks, keep doing what you are doing.5 -
With only 15 pounds to lose, it's going to be slow.
A trending app like Happy Scale might give you a better picture. If you don't have a smart phone, you can graph in a spreadsheet.
Because I spike when I ovulate, I might have thought I didn't lose any weight last month, but when I compare my lowest weight in August to my lowest weight in July, I had indeed lost according to my goal.
(My lowest weight of the month is about a week after my period starts.)9 -
Hi I've lost 30# and am realllly struggling to lose 15 more. I'm female, 5'5", 150#, do cardio boxing 5x/week...burns about 400cals. I also do strength training twice a week, burns about 250/session. This is all based off my chest strap monitor. On average I'm eating 1300-1400 cals per day of "real food", but the scale will not budge at all. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong? Thank you!!
What does this mean you’re eating 1300-1400 calories of “real food”? How many calories of unreal food are you taking in?9 -
WinoGelato wrote: »Hi I've lost 30# and am realllly struggling to lose 15 more. I'm female, 5'5", 150#, do cardio boxing 5x/week...burns about 400cals. I also do strength training twice a week, burns about 250/session. This is all based off my chest strap monitor. On average I'm eating 1300-1400 cals per day of "real food", but the scale will not budge at all. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong? Thank you!!
What does this mean you’re eating 1300-1400 calories of “real food”? How many calories of unreal food are you taking in?
I was afraid to ask that question. I was worried that I might find out that the food I eat is not "real".3 -
WinoGelato wrote: »Hi I've lost 30# and am realllly struggling to lose 15 more. I'm female, 5'5", 150#, do cardio boxing 5x/week...burns about 400cals. I also do strength training twice a week, burns about 250/session. This is all based off my chest strap monitor. On average I'm eating 1300-1400 cals per day of "real food", but the scale will not budge at all. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong? Thank you!!
What does this mean you’re eating 1300-1400 calories of “real food”? How many calories of unreal food are you taking in?
I took that to mean food that makes up balanced meals, as opposed to a bunch of doughnuts, chips, fries and snack cakes etc. 🤷♀️4 -
BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »Hi I've lost 30# and am realllly struggling to lose 15 more. I'm female, 5'5", 150#, do cardio boxing 5x/week...burns about 400cals. I also do strength training twice a week, burns about 250/session. This is all based off my chest strap monitor. On average I'm eating 1300-1400 cals per day of "real food", but the scale will not budge at all. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong? Thank you!!
What does this mean you’re eating 1300-1400 calories of “real food”? How many calories of unreal food are you taking in?
I took that to mean food that makes up balanced meals, as opposed to a bunch of doughnuts, chips, fries and snack cakes etc. 🤷♀️
I took it to mean including exercise calories (not net calories). The actual amount of food eaten. Xx0 -
Hi I've lost 30# and am realllly struggling to lose 15 more. I'm female, 5'5", 150#, do cardio boxing 5x/week...burns about 400cals. I also do strength training twice a week, burns about 250/session. This is all based off my chest strap monitor. On average I'm eating 1300-1400 cals per day of "real food", but the scale will not budge at all. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong? Thank you!!
HR-based calorie burn for both those types of workouts is going to be inflated.
It's only going to be a decent estimate for steady-state aerobic - so same HR for 2-4 min constantly.
And even then there are ways it can be inflated easily.
Those workouts are exactly opposite with HR all over the place and many points of anaerobic, therefore HR-based is bad method.
Now - if that was only for 15 min in a day of otherwise being very active - then no big whoop.
But if that is 60 min or more in otherwise not very active life - then the inflated values can easily have bad effect on what you think you burn.
And I'd think if you are only eating 1300-1400 of accurately logged food in total - you have no idea how bad your workouts probably are compared to eating enough to fuel them.
Oh, it may feel like you are working as hard as you can - and probably are, in a diminished state. That causes inflated HR from stress, but not actually burning that many calories.
But you are probably not working as hard as you could be with a well fueled body.
That effect can also make it easy for rest the day to be comparatively less active than it's potential. That also is usually unobserved.
If the above is happening (if 1300-1400 is truly accurate) then likely water retained from elevated stress induced cortisol is adding to the negative effect.4 -
The probability that you are actually burning 250 cal in each strength training session is extremely low.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30768553
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BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »Hi I've lost 30# and am realllly struggling to lose 15 more. I'm female, 5'5", 150#, do cardio boxing 5x/week...burns about 400cals. I also do strength training twice a week, burns about 250/session. This is all based off my chest strap monitor. On average I'm eating 1300-1400 cals per day of "real food", but the scale will not budge at all. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong? Thank you!!
What does this mean you’re eating 1300-1400 calories of “real food”? How many calories of unreal food are you taking in?
I took that to mean food that makes up balanced meals, as opposed to a bunch of doughnuts, chips, fries and snack cakes etc. 🤷♀️
Doughnuts aren’t real? They taste real...7 -
WinoGelato wrote: »BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »Hi I've lost 30# and am realllly struggling to lose 15 more. I'm female, 5'5", 150#, do cardio boxing 5x/week...burns about 400cals. I also do strength training twice a week, burns about 250/session. This is all based off my chest strap monitor. On average I'm eating 1300-1400 cals per day of "real food", but the scale will not budge at all. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong? Thank you!!
What does this mean you’re eating 1300-1400 calories of “real food”? How many calories of unreal food are you taking in?
I took that to mean food that makes up balanced meals, as opposed to a bunch of doughnuts, chips, fries and snack cakes etc. 🤷♀️
Doughnuts aren’t real? They taste real...
They certainly have very real effects if you eat too many of them!3 -
I've lost around 30-40 and only have about 20 more lbs to lose until my goal weight.
I recently changed goals to lose .5 per week and upped my calories for the final stretch.
I know and am prepared mentally for the last 20 to take time and to be patient.
Awesome progress so far!!
We can lose those last few!!!
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WinoGelato wrote: »BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »Hi I've lost 30# and am realllly struggling to lose 15 more. I'm female, 5'5", 150#, do cardio boxing 5x/week...burns about 400cals. I also do strength training twice a week, burns about 250/session. This is all based off my chest strap monitor. On average I'm eating 1300-1400 cals per day of "real food", but the scale will not budge at all. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong? Thank you!!
What does this mean you’re eating 1300-1400 calories of “real food”? How many calories of unreal food are you taking in?
I took that to mean food that makes up balanced meals, as opposed to a bunch of doughnuts, chips, fries and snack cakes etc. 🤷♀️
Doughnuts aren’t real? They taste real...
I wasn’t claiming that they weren’t real! I was simply trying for an interpretation of what the OP may have meant in context of her post.3 -
BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »Hi I've lost 30# and am realllly struggling to lose 15 more. I'm female, 5'5", 150#, do cardio boxing 5x/week...burns about 400cals. I also do strength training twice a week, burns about 250/session. This is all based off my chest strap monitor. On average I'm eating 1300-1400 cals per day of "real food", but the scale will not budge at all. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong? Thank you!!
What does this mean you’re eating 1300-1400 calories of “real food”? How many calories of unreal food are you taking in?
I took that to mean food that makes up balanced meals, as opposed to a bunch of doughnuts, chips, fries and snack cakes etc. 🤷♀️
Doughnuts aren’t real? They taste real...
I wasn’t claiming that they weren’t real! I was simply trying for an interpretation of what the OP may have meant in context of her post.
Oh I know I was just kidding.
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